Contiguity, Tea Cups from Conversations in Wonderland (The Researcher Tea Party) Folded & woven selection of academic papers/tea chest, PhD 2014-2016

This non-traditional research output was created as part of PhD (50/50) creative work and thesis knowledge contribution (Coleman, 2017). These tea cups are works that form part of a digital PhD Thesis and a/r/tographic study. It was a multimodal living inquiry, curated as a digital collection of images, essays and ethnographic video, and situated within embodied praxis completed between 2014 and 2016. The findings from the inquiry inform our understanding of the complex yet commensurate building of identities in art education. These works were forma part of a larger work called Conversations in Wonderland (The Researcher Tea Party). It includes folded & woven paper selected from academic and scholarly materials and wooden tea chest.

Situated within a/r/tographic inquiry and embodied research, this study addressed rhizomatic learning in art education and in arts based educational research and literature, specifically how important an understanding of creativity and creative practice are for students as art makers and responders to art, as makers, historians, theorists and critics. While art and art education are commonly discussed as creative, promoted as important aspects of cultural thinking, values collaboration, creativity and problem solving in schools, few studies have designed a personalised learning space to inform these practices and explore them from the artist-researcher-teacher viewpoint.

Coleman, K.S. (2017). An a/r/tist in wonderland: Exploring identity, creativity and digital portfolios as a/r/tographer, Ph.D. dissertation, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2017. Retrieved from http://www.artographicexplorations.com